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heart bypass surgery, angioplasty, back surgery, prostatectomy, antibiotic use, all over used. in september of this year the joint commission which accredits the nation's hospitals or many of them, will be hosting its first meeting on over treatment, and there will be looking at a number of these topics and trying to come to consensus on what it can do as an a creditor of hospitals to encourage hospitals to reduce unnecessary treatment. i think we have a moment in time now with health care reform that if we had unnecessary procedures , stop doing them on people who don't need them. use the talent and skill and resources on people who really do need them. if we can make that switch now, everybody will be kept intact. maintenance of board certification, if you will be seeking board certification in the future. i see your heads,. 2015, appropriate use will be part of minutes of certification . knowing when it's appropriate to do imaging for low back pain screening for osteoporosis. appropriate if you do oncology so that third round of chemotherapy and when is there no evidence tha
heart bypass surgery, angioplasty, back surgery, prostatectomy, antibiotic use, all over used. in september of this year the joint commission which accredits the nation's hospitals or many of them, will be hosting its first meeting on over treatment, and there will be looking at a number of these topics and trying to come to consensus on what it can do as an a creditor of hospitals to encourage hospitals to reduce unnecessary treatment. i think we have a moment in time now with health care...
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so it protect us. it was settled by the compromise to read 1832 to 33 the nullification between the state of south carolina federal government was also sold by compromise. and finally, the late 1840's battling over the future of slavery formed in the mexican war was settled by the compromise of 1850. then you look at these examples precedent and tradition placed for notice the settlement to take place in 1861 but did not slavery in the 15 states where it existed. almost all americans in 1860, republicans included, believes where it existed. rather, the critical question was slavery in the national territories, and the territories geographically these territories were comprised in the rocky mountains and then west of the rocky mountains to california. it didn't include california because california, as you know, is already a state. it had to do with the future of slavery and the future of southern power in the nation. now they demand that what they saw to take their property including slave property. in
so it protect us. it was settled by the compromise to read 1832 to 33 the nullification between the state of south carolina federal government was also sold by compromise. and finally, the late 1840's battling over the future of slavery formed in the mexican war was settled by the compromise of 1850. then you look at these examples precedent and tradition placed for notice the settlement to take place in 1861 but did not slavery in the 15 states where it existed. almost all americans in 1860,...
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using local materials. how realistic is this and what's the food you see produce up there? >> that is the star trek replicated. that is where what you have in that model, there is a box. the box has so many feedstocks. whether their atoms or molecules, imagine piles of goo that you would say you want something, it would just download the recipe, it would mix them in the right proportions and fabricate them in the right layers, a symbol stuff and you have got it. molecular assembly, atomic construction, doesn't violate the laws of physics. i don't know how you'd do it but it could be done. >> how far away is that? >> pretty far off. maybe it wouldn't be that hard. in that small, talking about atomic assembly, we do molecular assembly all the time. it is called your body. every selling your body knows how to do this already. we have a hard time creating synthetic machines to do it but biology is a fantastic factory. it knows how to take instructions which is called dna, assembled commodity proteins and molecu
using local materials. how realistic is this and what's the food you see produce up there? >> that is the star trek replicated. that is where what you have in that model, there is a box. the box has so many feedstocks. whether their atoms or molecules, imagine piles of goo that you would say you want something, it would just download the recipe, it would mix them in the right proportions and fabricate them in the right layers, a symbol stuff and you have got it. molecular assembly, atomic...
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he's kind of gotten used to it at the universities. we also talked at length about the case of the university of delaware. it's on the right side of the history on the right side of our moral issues defended to this day and the mandatory programs that you have to go to that would stand on one wall and we have this opinion about the social security or this opinion about welfare, this opinion about affirmative action and on the other you of the other opinion. you can have mandatory questionnaires about what race and sex he would be the you had to fill out, and one freshman responded that is none of your damn business. i can't do that case justice. i spent about half a chapter on the university of delaware. excitingly i had my first article in the new york times. that happened on thursday and "the new york times" really wanted me to focus on the elite colleges and so i -- that's easy. i wrote a chapter on yale and harvard in the book. i mentioned one case since i'm so used to these cases at this point i was kind of surprised how powerful
he's kind of gotten used to it at the universities. we also talked at length about the case of the university of delaware. it's on the right side of the history on the right side of our moral issues defended to this day and the mandatory programs that you have to go to that would stand on one wall and we have this opinion about the social security or this opinion about welfare, this opinion about affirmative action and on the other you of the other opinion. you can have mandatory questionnaires...
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software tools on earth used by people to design cool stuff, #*d # printers on the moon, using local material, how realistic is it, and what stuff would be produced up there? >> that's star trek replicators. what you have, and member, there's a box. the box has, like, presumably feed stock of various sorts. i don't know if they were atoms or molecules. >> never specified. >> viles and goo that you say you want something, and it would just download the recipe, mix them in the right proportions, fab fabricate them in the right layers, assemble the stuff, and then, poof, you got it. it's the assembly, atomic construction. it doesn't violate the laws of physics, i don't know how you do it, but it could be done. >> how far away is that? >> pretty far off, maybe it wouldn't be that hard, but, you know, so in that model, it's atonic assembly. every cell in your body does this already. we have a hard time creating machines that do it, but biology's a fantastic factory taking, you know, instructions, called dna, assemble commodity proteins and molecules, and create the most extraordinary mach
software tools on earth used by people to design cool stuff, #*d # printers on the moon, using local material, how realistic is it, and what stuff would be produced up there? >> that's star trek replicators. what you have, and member, there's a box. the box has, like, presumably feed stock of various sorts. i don't know if they were atoms or molecules. >> never specified. >> viles and goo that you say you want something, and it would just download the recipe, mix them in the...
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so i am hoping that it will have a lot of different uses. while we have made unbelievable progress what's also pause to remember we have kids jumping off bridges. one of the things in cambridge massachusetts we live in a bubble and if you don't live on one of the two coasts or in an urban area, you are very likely to experience the kind of attitudes that existed 50 years ago and if you are a kid at least you can find out there are other people like you that you are not the only person in the world experiencing what you are experiencing but still it's really tough out there and for all of the progress that we have made, we still have way too much bullying and depression and attended the suicide particularly in our young people so it's important to remember that it's not like cambridge word new england. we are seeing remarkable progress in some of our religious institutions. in the episcopal church i am happy to say we have now ordained its second day bishop as los angeles so the church has decided this is where we are headed and there we go a
so i am hoping that it will have a lot of different uses. while we have made unbelievable progress what's also pause to remember we have kids jumping off bridges. one of the things in cambridge massachusetts we live in a bubble and if you don't live on one of the two coasts or in an urban area, you are very likely to experience the kind of attitudes that existed 50 years ago and if you are a kid at least you can find out there are other people like you that you are not the only person in the...
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most of us just settle for believing the bible says what other people tell us that says. i suppose, this is just at the center of this debate. so we had a group in concorde 12 the 21-year-old lbgt, -- not a single one of them had ever been to a sunday school, none of them were raised in a religious community of faith of any kind. everyone of them knew the word abomination. everyone of them thought that that is what god thought of them. even the ones who didn't believe in god. that's what they felt that god believes about them. they couldn't have found the book of leviticus in the bible if you had a loaded gun pointed at her head. but they knew that word and they believed that that was what god thought of them. you don't even have to be religious to sell this stuff up. and you don't have to be religious to soak it up if you are a gay kid, and kids do suck it up, whether they ever got it in sunday school or not. and they jump off bridges. one last question here in front. >> is a great honor and privilege being a presence today. as a member of the islamic community and the h
most of us just settle for believing the bible says what other people tell us that says. i suppose, this is just at the center of this debate. so we had a group in concorde 12 the 21-year-old lbgt, -- not a single one of them had ever been to a sunday school, none of them were raised in a religious community of faith of any kind. everyone of them knew the word abomination. everyone of them thought that that is what god thought of them. even the ones who didn't believe in god. that's what they...
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thank you for joining us. the question of whether and how governments, particularly the federal government direct tax dollars to industries was a discussion last night presidential debate and is becoming an ongoing theme in the campaign. the term on which the finance and industries have also been the focus of intense debate, but probably the most contentious example of all is the one on which diana furchtgott-roth of the manhattan to senior fellow and speaker this afternoon focuses and are tightly regulating to disaster, have green jobs policies are damaging america's economy. in fact, she subjects the assumptions and policies which led to such elevated as of now bankrupt seller paid no manufacture as well as the electric car battery manufacturer to a withering analysis, which we at the institute have come to expect from this oxford trained economist who served as chief of staff of the council of economic advisers -- sorry. during the administration of president george w. bush. while the serving direct investm
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unforgiving, harsh, but again, get used to it. it's going to be that way and it doesn't get any better for about five years. when i got wings and i got to fighter, again, i should've known better, but i thought i was somebody again. and you know, you get out to luke air force base, get f-16s and get into rcu, where they train you how to fly the f-16 and the eat that right out of you, too. it's a process of climbing up, getting beaten down, climbing up, getting beaten down. even at my first fighter school, it's two years after he started. i walk in the door and i think okay, now i'm really bear. i'm a fighter pilot now and you're not. even if you're qualified f-16 pilot because he has to go through front-line fighter check out. it's called an ntt program. that takes two or three months. at the end the look you in the eye and say you're a fighter pilot. i was too tired them to think much of myself. but just beware of being cocky. what else? did you think of your question? no, you don't have one? okay. >> microphone makes him nervous
unforgiving, harsh, but again, get used to it. it's going to be that way and it doesn't get any better for about five years. when i got wings and i got to fighter, again, i should've known better, but i thought i was somebody again. and you know, you get out to luke air force base, get f-16s and get into rcu, where they train you how to fly the f-16 and the eat that right out of you, too. it's a process of climbing up, getting beaten down, climbing up, getting beaten down. even at my first...
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thank you for joining us. the question of whether and how government, particularly the federal government directs tax dollars to specific industries was a discussion in last night's presidential debate and has become an important and ongoing theme in the current presidential campaign. the terms by which washington assisted the finance and auto industries have been the focus of intense debate but the most contentious example of all is the one on which diana furchtgott-roth, senior fellow and speaker this afternoon focuses in her timely and important new book "regulating to disaster: how green jobs policies are damaging america's economy". in it, she subjects assumptions and policies which led to such ill-fated federal investments as that of the now bankrupt solyndra solar panel manufacturer as well as the a 123 caller battery manufacturer to a withering analysis which we at the institute have come to expect of the oxford trained economist whose chief of staff for the council of economic advisers. sorry. during
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we will take as many as they tell us we can, and when it tell us we can't we will cut you off. >> this is a specific question. given the too big to fail banks are now bigger and more consolidated than ever, and given that the dodd-frank bill reforms regulations have been deleted and postponed and delayed, i am assuming there will be another banking crisis eventually, maybe next year, maybe, you know, whenever. do you think that it is another bill that comes up to bailout the financial industry wall street, the banks got to you think that the tea party and the house would go along with that? do you think that they would stop it? >> no is the answer. i think that it is still a dirty word. particularly in conservative circles. roy blunt, for example, now senator in missouri helped put it together. he has, you know, the conservative flank of his party that has never forgiven him for that. i think that the point of view whether it is factually borne out and not is that that sort of deal, anything that basically causes more regulation in the banks, creates more problems than solves. and that
we will take as many as they tell us we can, and when it tell us we can't we will cut you off. >> this is a specific question. given the too big to fail banks are now bigger and more consolidated than ever, and given that the dodd-frank bill reforms regulations have been deleted and postponed and delayed, i am assuming there will be another banking crisis eventually, maybe next year, maybe, you know, whenever. do you think that it is another bill that comes up to bailout the financial...
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people lie to us because they don't want to tell us they are # not voting for the black man. by the way, if there's ever an election, you'd have the bradley effect operating, this is it. i was on a show yesterday and a caller called from michigan bringing home a romney yard sign, and his wife said, you can't put that up, they'll think we're racist. if people are that afraid, you're right, that's what the argument is, we must purge our white guilt by voting to re-elect an incompetent black president. that's one of the excuse, and the exit polls in 2004, i don't know if you remember, but i do. 3 p.m., i was assured it was over, kerry won in a land slide. those are supposed to be allegedly treated as the most accurate polls. turned on the tv, the conservatives on tv looked like their dogs died, and -- [laughter] you know, liberals giggling and happy, and, oops, didn't come out that way. in new hampshire, well, i won't run them all of these, but cbs harangued them, saying, you conceived, you lost the election. i don't think i lost. they counted the votes, and he was not losing. w
people lie to us because they don't want to tell us they are # not voting for the black man. by the way, if there's ever an election, you'd have the bradley effect operating, this is it. i was on a show yesterday and a caller called from michigan bringing home a romney yard sign, and his wife said, you can't put that up, they'll think we're racist. if people are that afraid, you're right, that's what the argument is, we must purge our white guilt by voting to re-elect an incompetent black...
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still, that doesn't bring him down to 1862 us. he comes down to us because abraham lincoln looked to clay as his political mentor. he was his political hero and he called him the ideal of the statesman. lincoln's best-known remark on clay, came in a eulogy he delivered in the week after clay's death. he praised the statesman's leading and most conspicuous part of sexual compromise. at the same time, he underscored that as a politician and statesman, no one was as careful as clay consider all grounds. he worked with political opponents as well as political allies. he engaged his whole energy on behalf of the union. as late as february 1861, in the middle of the crisis of the union, lincoln professed that during my whole political life i have revered clay as a teacher and leader. he also noted clay's opposition to slavery. several times we can make clear to point to his detestation of slavery. lincoln didn't invent anti-slavery. he downplayed his ability to moderate that stance. he did detest the institution. he even did so unsucces
still, that doesn't bring him down to 1862 us. he comes down to us because abraham lincoln looked to clay as his political mentor. he was his political hero and he called him the ideal of the statesman. lincoln's best-known remark on clay, came in a eulogy he delivered in the week after clay's death. he praised the statesman's leading and most conspicuous part of sexual compromise. at the same time, he underscored that as a politician and statesman, no one was as careful as clay consider all...
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you can tweet us at booktv. comment on the facebook wall, or send us an e-mail. booktv, non-fiction bocks every day weekend on c-span2. >>> joseph recounts the life of union philip -- robert e lee. the author recalls the military tactic and the postwar career which included command of the u.s. army. it's about 45 minutes. [applause] >> i want to thank coral ridge boobs for inviting me back and all the people to come out and hear about general fill sheraton of the try -- civilling war he was probably the least known of them. the other being grant and william sherman. in 1937, the three generals appeared together on a commemorative postage stamp, as part of a series honoring great u.s. military commanders. in the center grant to the right is sherman, and sheraton on grant's left. this is a appropriate because by the time civil war ended, sheraton was sometimes referred to as the left-hand of grant the left-handed. he was ten years younger than grant and sherman, he was a dynamo inspired his men with the intensity
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today, we're used to a president using someone as an example. that was not done until ronald reagan did it for the first, you know, first time, and ever president since that used people as an example of their political goals own their philosophies. i found that one close to home. i did a biography with ryan lamb, and they said what is the real brian like? he did not want a biography done, and i pumped him and pumped him, and i got a contract to do one. i came in, and said, well, what do you think? he said, well, i guess i'd let you do. i can't say no. i start this occupation that is committed to open access to information. how can it close things down? he was a wonderful source. he didn't interfere. opened doors for me, gave me a list of the high school friends and buddies, scene so that was kind of fun to do. prior to that, i did a book that looked at individuals who changed national policy. it's called "citizen democracy," a bunch of profiles of individuals, unelected, unappointed individuals who went out and created things like major legislat
today, we're used to a president using someone as an example. that was not done until ronald reagan did it for the first, you know, first time, and ever president since that used people as an example of their political goals own their philosophies. i found that one close to home. i did a biography with ryan lamb, and they said what is the real brian like? he did not want a biography done, and i pumped him and pumped him, and i got a contract to do one. i came in, and said, well, what do you...
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how you used it to deport people. we saw what happened in the 1920s when folks came in, of course, and helped keep your economy alive when it was booming, and then when the economy busted in 1929, mr. hoover deported them all. we saw what happened in the war, all immigrants came in, kept fields and factories and mines alive, and then in 1954, mr. eisenhower, another great military leader, allowedded one of the same people from that expedition against poncho to begin to round up immigrants. in 1954, the same year a young man, your age, a young man whose family fled poe land because of the holocaust, went to canada, came into new york as someone seeking freedom and exile, someone who understood the beauty of the american dream. in 1959, reportedly, that's when tom horn got his citizenship. our attorney general, the same here hundreds of thousands of mexicans and mexican-americans and their children were deported in operations. it's not about immigration, jeff, she told me. do you understand that? it's not about immigrat
how you used it to deport people. we saw what happened in the 1920s when folks came in, of course, and helped keep your economy alive when it was booming, and then when the economy busted in 1929, mr. hoover deported them all. we saw what happened in the war, all immigrants came in, kept fields and factories and mines alive, and then in 1954, mr. eisenhower, another great military leader, allowedded one of the same people from that expedition against poncho to begin to round up immigrants. in...
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and their own documents in their own words produce for us to look at. so it is an unusual experience to be able to do this. even though it's a pain in the. spent my name is steve jacobson. first of all, i don't know why, how anybody would believe anything the fbi says. secondly, it's kind of a key time here with the occupy movement has arrived, and this discrediting of iop can make a lot of present-day activists distrustful, paranoid, whatever. and i went to a meeting, i'm finishing. i went to a meeting 10 days ago with 200, mostly 60s activists, including myself. bobby seale, a lot of black panthers. and to a t., no one believes this, they all feel you have been used by the fbi to discredit aoki. and in other words, i'm not saying you are guilty but i'm saying you're being used by the fbi. everybody believes that. i'm just saying, defend himself, that's all. >> okay, i'm happy to respond to that. well, i spent a lot of time examining fbi records. i studied the fbi records, key procedures, and i've been very careful in doing my research. i think i descr
and their own documents in their own words produce for us to look at. so it is an unusual experience to be able to do this. even though it's a pain in the. spent my name is steve jacobson. first of all, i don't know why, how anybody would believe anything the fbi says. secondly, it's kind of a key time here with the occupy movement has arrived, and this discrediting of iop can make a lot of present-day activists distrustful, paranoid, whatever. and i went to a meeting, i'm finishing. i went to...
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please stay with us. we would love to have you continue. and if you have questions, we will be back with you in it slightly less than ten minutes. thanks so much for your patients. please stay with us, and please thank our author >> this book is about liberals, not democrats who are not that much different in many respects. this book is dedicated to the peculiar brand of american new self identifies as a liberal who believes life is a liberal and wishes more of us in america were liberal. he liked a more. think nancy pelosi. thank your local college professor. think the driver of the crazy car without the bush is hitler bumper stickers on the back of the card. think to check out hope that the master's degree in gender studies during the head and at your local whole foods store. [laughter] you get the picture, right? and they dominate professions that leaves a large, cultural and played in this great country of ours. professions like journalism, arts and academia can the music industry and of course america's fastest growing band of entertai
please stay with us. we would love to have you continue. and if you have questions, we will be back with you in it slightly less than ten minutes. thanks so much for your patients. please stay with us, and please thank our author >> this book is about liberals, not democrats who are not that much different in many respects. this book is dedicated to the peculiar brand of american new self identifies as a liberal who believes life is a liberal and wishes more of us in america were liberal....
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you can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> and now from the 17th annual texas book festival in austin, texas, a discussion of president lyndon johnson and first lady ladybird johnson. this is just over 50 minutes. >> hi, and welcome to the texas book festival.d my name is carol dawson, and iw love being a moderator every year at the texas book festival, and i particularly love this task this year. task this year i have had the privilege of reading two books that interlock so beautifully that it provided one hold 360-degree experience in reading them. before we begin, and i introduce our authors, i want to remind you all that all proceeds of book sales at the texas book festival goats the libraries of this great state. so, please avail yourself of the book tent and after a recession is over the book signing tents where you can get both of the signatures of these two wonderful gentleman on the front pieces of your books. now, our panel today, as you know, is about ladybird johnson, a
you can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> and now from the 17th annual texas book festival in austin, texas, a discussion of president lyndon johnson and first lady ladybird johnson. this is just over 50 minutes. >> hi, and welcome to the texas book festival.d my name is carol dawson, and iw love being a moderator every year at the texas book festival, and i particularly love this task this year. task...
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a lot of our regular customers, like i said, they love us, they support us, but then they're like i got this note, or is so easy to get a book. staffer lost customers that way. a lot of people will buy e-books from us through our website, which we've enabled. but not everybody does and we've lost customers that way. we don't loose customers so much as they don't buy as much as they used to. we see a lot of people whose purchases aren't as high as they used to. it's a con to question the power we going to survive in this new environment? publishing is in a precarious position and a lot of bookstores and how are we going to survive that? is something we think about all the time. there's no resting on your laurels, even if you've been here almost 40 years. we are constantly trying to change and adapt and stay on top of things like adding e-books to our website and having a website that you can order any kind of book on, something we work all the time, on facebook, we need to bring in new products all the time. we have more things that are nonbook items in this or that people enjoy for gift
a lot of our regular customers, like i said, they love us, they support us, but then they're like i got this note, or is so easy to get a book. staffer lost customers that way. a lot of people will buy e-books from us through our website, which we've enabled. but not everybody does and we've lost customers that way. we don't loose customers so much as they don't buy as much as they used to. we see a lot of people whose purchases aren't as high as they used to. it's a con to question the power...
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[applause] >> we are fortunate to have john turner with us. he teaches religious studies at george mason university in virginia, and his history that we are discussing today is a very important contribution. i'm impressed. it's hard to impress me. i taught utah history 34 times at the university of utah. the -- his first book, "campus crusade for christ: renewal of evangelical in post war america," it was a prize winning book. he's a graduate of notre dame. they'll be in our minds today with football. he is from new york state, upstate, as they call it. not far from where brigham young workedded or paul mira. well, his insight and balance, we'll talk about later on in the program. the other commentators are craig foster, author of two books, critical analyst of appty-mormon in great britain, 1837-1860, and a different god question, myth mitt, the religious right and the mormon question. he also co-authored with the mormon quest for the presidency, and also with the persistence of polygamy andçó mormon anthology. he worked for the family hist
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a lot of our regular customers are, like i said, they love us and support us, but then they say that i have and i've had and it's so easy to get a book. so we definitely love customers. we don't lose customers to e-books, although we don't see the purchases advertiser used to be. it is a constant question of how are we going to survive this new environment. publishing is in a precarious position in some ways, and a lot of people think about that. we are constantly trying to change and adapt and sing on top of things. like adding e-books to our website. we are having a website in order we bring in new products all the time and more things that are nonbook items in the store that people really enjoy for gift giving. we definitely have to stay on top of things to make sure we are checking what the next place as we can be going. where are you going to browse? where you going to browse them, where you going to get ideas? well, i personally did not want amazon controlling everything. they are not the people. they are internet people. we want to making the decisions on what gets published a
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don has lots of answers but when you do ask your question, you are also giving us permission to use your image and your words in the various broadcast media that will be looking towards once this talk is completed. don has a long history as you know as most of the people in the room know as a historian he associate historian for the u.s. senate and for many years he's been writing books about politics, about history, the press in particular, and i jumped into my own collection at home and during the signing session that would have for today's bouck which of course is editing fdr, the new deal campaign of 1930 to with the press gallery which reflect the subtitle congress in the washington correspondents and it's amazing that is also the is an area where don has developed his knowledge and his way of thinking about congress and the strict application of oral history and to put it in the perspective which through his books survived. one of the purposes of the talks actually is to demonstrate how resources of libraries and in particular the library of congress are used by scholars to point o
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and will move us in the right direction. open up security to large originatessers that puts to the -- put the pools thooght would not preclude credit union national or aba or like bodies to create for smaller entities that don't have large amounts of volume. >> or even a federal home loan bank. >> absolutely. >> the white paper that alex and peter wallace and i wrote about a year and a half ago, we address the question twofold. one was should have a mortgage market that does not rely on government primarily and the way you get there is by having expectations and design that vast majority of the loans loans are prime loans and prime loans as common sense prime loans came to be defined by fannie and freddie. secondly we suggested that mortgage backed security should be limited to prime loans as was mentioned if you want do something else, do you that through portfolio through the capital requirements and other are very difficult. i would point out there's a great study it's on my scholar page of the new york governor appointed
and will move us in the right direction. open up security to large originatessers that puts to the -- put the pools thooght would not preclude credit union national or aba or like bodies to create for smaller entities that don't have large amounts of volume. >> or even a federal home loan bank. >> absolutely. >> the white paper that alex and peter wallace and i wrote about a year and a half ago, we address the question twofold. one was should have a mortgage market that does...
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[inaudible] >> using up time? agree, that's too bad. [laughter] i think you will find the book fascinating as i have. it is very hard to get an judgment about several people in american history. how many books on george armstrong? how many books on lincoln? you see the proliferation and brigham young suspect in that category, he's in the category just below because there are lots of commentaryies. this one is superior to most, if not all. it is very mature, as we end, i would like you to thank our panelists and our author and to wish them well. thank you. [applause] for more information visit the authors website johngturner.com. >>> tonight i'm going discuss abraham lincoln's role in 1860 and 1861. more specific, i want to talk about why abraham lincoln rejected any meaningful comprise. following his election as president november 18 of 1860, the country was gripped by a sectional crisis because many southern earns feared lincoln and the republican party. the republican party was a northern party and proudly so. did not have a significa
[inaudible] >> using up time? agree, that's too bad. [laughter] i think you will find the book fascinating as i have. it is very hard to get an judgment about several people in american history. how many books on george armstrong? how many books on lincoln? you see the proliferation and brigham young suspect in that category, he's in the category just below because there are lots of commentaryies. this one is superior to most, if not all. it is very mature, as we end, i would like you to...
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the rest of us were really paying attention. of course any government subsidy will create a constituency devoted to preserving that subsidy. but fannie had a better organized group of allies than most other programs. the realtors and homebuilders are in every community across the country. we also do patchwork of state and local agencies and nonprofits devoted to affordable housing. collectively people are known as the hazards. at the mall together and they are almost an unbeatable coalition. so fannie mae persisted. in the 1960s the federal government have bigger problems to deal with. the war on poverty, the war in vietnam, riots, protests. these are realtors defending their subsidy. [laughter] reforming fannie mae just is not a huge priority in the topic came up only because of a budget dispute. critics complain the federal budget did not reflect all of the obligations of the federal government. so-called vj appointed a commission to try to settle this debate and in 1967, the commission decided the deaths of agencies such as f
the rest of us were really paying attention. of course any government subsidy will create a constituency devoted to preserving that subsidy. but fannie had a better organized group of allies than most other programs. the realtors and homebuilders are in every community across the country. we also do patchwork of state and local agencies and nonprofits devoted to affordable housing. collectively people are known as the hazards. at the mall together and they are almost an unbeatable coalition. so...
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prison -- [applause] today we are fortunate to have with us john turner. he teaches religious studies at george mason university in virginia, and his history that we are discussing today is a very important contribution. i'm impressed. and it's hard to impress me. you taught history for 34 times at the university of utah. his first book, bill bright and campus crusade for christ's renewal, the renewal of evangelical in postwar america, it was a prize-winning book. he's a graduate of notre dame. they'll be in our minds today with football. [laughter] he is from new york state, upstate as they call it. not really very far from where brigham young worked and not far from pal my rah -- palmyra. well, his insight and balance we'll talk about later on in the program. the other commentators are greg -- craig foster, author of two books, penny cracks and polemics, a critical analysis of anti-mormon panel me tier in great britain, and "a different god question: mitt romney, the religious right and the mormon question." he also co-authored "mormon quest for the pres
prison -- [applause] today we are fortunate to have with us john turner. he teaches religious studies at george mason university in virginia, and his history that we are discussing today is a very important contribution. i'm impressed. and it's hard to impress me. you taught history for 34 times at the university of utah. his first book, bill bright and campus crusade for christ's renewal, the renewal of evangelical in postwar america, it was a prize-winning book. he's a graduate of notre dame....
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he used to watch football and baseball quite avidly. but he never admitted to watching sort of mindless entertainment. so i was usually about five minutes late for our meetings at the residence in the afternoon, so he normally expected me to be late. and this one day in particular i was five minutes early, and i was walking up the stairs, and before i could clear the stairs to the third floor, i heard the television going. and then i heard canned laughter coming out of that television, and i realized that he was watching something that was meant to amuse. and i was very surprised by this. and i looked at him, and he had his shoes off and his feet were stockinged, up on the ottoman, crossed, and he had the remote control in his hand, and he was laughing. he was just enjoying the show and the moment so much, and i just observed him for a couple of moments because i really wanted him to have those few extra minutes when he didn't have to be "on," and he didn't have to be the serious richard nixon that he presented to me, most of the time a
he used to watch football and baseball quite avidly. but he never admitted to watching sort of mindless entertainment. so i was usually about five minutes late for our meetings at the residence in the afternoon, so he normally expected me to be late. and this one day in particular i was five minutes early, and i was walking up the stairs, and before i could clear the stairs to the third floor, i heard the television going. and then i heard canned laughter coming out of that television, and i...
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how did we get here quiet what kept us moving? who kept us moving? miles davis is one of the people who kept me moving. he and i went to the same high school as did one of the pioneers up on the hill. but for moral service, we couldn't get a spot on the sidewalk, not to mention trying to get a seat in lincoln high school, where he graduated in 1944 and was one of two teenagers of the black community at juilliard. that may be her record. i read a long poem of which all recite. trust up and came began a scenario climb up the tribal stairwell. greeks, radiant at the at the at the, spread like laughter or ethiopia's wings. more in its own percussive rise became the st. louis area. bore witness to the calm, the careless silence, the casket to tears, that death of the crew became the burden of an ancestor. hear y'all, the death of the two became the birth of an ancestor. and many of the newspapers that covered that memorial had headlines in kansas city, st. louis come the death of the crew do make a difference. 1963 is one of them takes less time to read o
how did we get here quiet what kept us moving? who kept us moving? miles davis is one of the people who kept me moving. he and i went to the same high school as did one of the pioneers up on the hill. but for moral service, we couldn't get a spot on the sidewalk, not to mention trying to get a seat in lincoln high school, where he graduated in 1944 and was one of two teenagers of the black community at juilliard. that may be her record. i read a long poem of which all recite. trust up and came...
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why would -- >> because i would use other, i would use tutoring, i would use extra hours at school, i would use things that don't necessarily cost money, but cost energy. not money, money to the teachers, yes. maybe not money to the children. [laughter] in other words -- >> yeah. >> teachers should get paid more if they stay later, if they work harder. i don't mean sniffs for your miss -- incentives for your kids performing better -- >> okay, so if the teachers stay longer and do tutoring, that's one thing. >> yes. >> this raises an interesting question. there are some school districts that are using cash incentives for teachers based on whether the kids show improvement on standardized tests. you're against that. >> okay. that's an issue that makes my blood boil, so i can't even discuss it. [laughter] because they're not getting educated. they're being taught how to take a test. >> do you also think it's disrespectful to the teacher? >> what do you mean? >> we'll pay you a little extra? >> no. no, i actually -- [laughter] oh, my god. [laughter] >> i can see, it makes your blood boil.
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these stories can either push us forward or hold us back. i think for a while miami has some stories that help i am a bank and no miami has stories moving it forward. even our self-images, our personas are just stories that we tell about ourselves for that other hotel about us. about a year ago i met the actor and director tyler perry. tyler a couple years ago bought delta airlines headquarters in atlanta and needed to some its tv shows and movies. one of the amazing things about tyler and his story is a 1998 tyler was homeless and tyler perry searcy changed his story. i have kind of an unusual story myself. i was born in a small river town on the hudson, newburgh new york. when i was growing up, look magazine called it the all-american city and at that time we had kind of an inner-city, but then we had a lot of harm kids and there was an air force base of the schools will follow the inner-city and harm can and kids who'd been around the world. it was an interesting place to grow up. earlier on my father grew up in the newburgh poorhouse. it
these stories can either push us forward or hold us back. i think for a while miami has some stories that help i am a bank and no miami has stories moving it forward. even our self-images, our personas are just stories that we tell about ourselves for that other hotel about us. about a year ago i met the actor and director tyler perry. tyler a couple years ago bought delta airlines headquarters in atlanta and needed to some its tv shows and movies. one of the amazing things about tyler and his...
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to send us a principal block called just and reasonable from monopoly. the owner should earn a just and reasonable profit. the customers pay just and reasonable price. but if you say just and reasonable price and then he threw in the income tax and the company pockets that can announce an unjust and unreasonable price and the company is violating the underlying standard for regulation. and it's an enormous amount of money. the average electric is about 5% of your bill is these taxes. if you can collect 1 penny a day from everyone in america, the end of the year cohabit elion $100 million. wow, what if you collect a dollar a day? that you have $111 billion. it doesn't take a lot of these deals in different industries before some money you and i are doing so well because a handful of people are doing extraordinarily well. >> host: one of the statistics that jumped out at me was from 1983 to 2010, the number of americans whose 30% utility workers fell 15%. that of course comes to mind. at an officer in washington d.c. is any worse, but every time there's a
to send us a principal block called just and reasonable from monopoly. the owner should earn a just and reasonable profit. the customers pay just and reasonable price. but if you say just and reasonable price and then he threw in the income tax and the company pockets that can announce an unjust and unreasonable price and the company is violating the underlying standard for regulation. and it's an enormous amount of money. the average electric is about 5% of your bill is these taxes. if you can...
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>> guest: the chief person at verizon to read the was a phrase that isn't used any more and they have the fiber optics but not to your home. but the companies are not wiring the whole country the way these others are. universal access, high-speed internet would lead to products and services i can't even imagine what they are but if you build it they will come and so the other countries are doing this and we are going to be left in the dust economically and the company is run to the state legislatures and they get all these little changes in the law that i tell about that say you don't have to provide service to everybody. the innocence 1913 they have the right to a telephone. five states have repealed that all. i think it's florida, alabama, texas and wisconsin. i can't tell you a single newspaper, telling me this. i've called the nafisi group's who deal with lifelong access for disabled and poor people. we didn't hear that happen. so the news media -- >> host: if you're that far away. >> guest: one of the arguments made is we don't have a monopoly made in the more we have these compe
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thanks for joining us. several hours of live coverage ahead with many opportunities for you to interact with authors. here's the lineup for today. in just a minute, james patterson will be here at miami dade college talking about a reading program he started called read kiddo read. we'll bring that to you live. another author panel.
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she got talked into pay three time the value of a used car by a car salesmen. wells fargo financed the deal. she would have paid $30,000 for a $6,000 car with interest. she got pregnant and went on disable. she tried to give the car back and thigh want. wells fargo said we're going to take your house. and under the agreement you -- buy an appliance you give up your right to sue and are put into arbitration. they have all the cards. if you go to arbitration you might do that once in your live. but the ash iters know it's the bank and the car dealer and the other companies they come to you every day, and this is called repeat player problem. they have an economic interest in making happy the people you're up against because they're going to hire them again and a again. two law students at american university, took the case, creatively ran with it. ultimately the woman didn't have to pay and wells fargo paid damage. what did wells fargo say to the single mother? we'll take your house, and all of this is because of the 1925 federal arbitration act, which probably n
she got talked into pay three time the value of a used car by a car salesmen. wells fargo financed the deal. she would have paid $30,000 for a $6,000 car with interest. she got pregnant and went on disable. she tried to give the car back and thigh want. wells fargo said we're going to take your house. and under the agreement you -- buy an appliance you give up your right to sue and are put into arbitration. they have all the cards. if you go to arbitration you might do that once in your live....
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their own side project, their own little hunches, actually to use language that i used in my book. the only real responsibility is to report to the supervisor every month or so other 20% time project is going and if they have switched over to another project. that 20% of time because it is open ended and evolves the unique compassion that employee, it allows the company to have fresh ideas all the time. and anytime they can stop the 20% of time. google news, parts of gmail, social networking, part of their advertising engine, it started as 20% time experiments. it is allowing employees what their hobbies be part of their job. a lot of the people that i profile in turn eight, people like priestley, or looking back on the book like "the ghost map" come all these people come one of the defining characteristics is that they have a lot of hobbies. when you think about ben franklin, he had an insane number of hobbies. a lot of great things can happen when you're just by yourself. it reminds you of some connection and a new angle perhaps on the problem with this network. and that smart co
their own side project, their own little hunches, actually to use language that i used in my book. the only real responsibility is to report to the supervisor every month or so other 20% time project is going and if they have switched over to another project. that 20% of time because it is open ended and evolves the unique compassion that employee, it allows the company to have fresh ideas all the time. and anytime they can stop the 20% of time. google news, parts of gmail, social networking,...
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why'd you use that quote? >> guest: the point i'm making there is that americans in the pre-civil war period--many americans of good will, and tocqueville, a foreign observer, also of good will, people who believed in the principle of equality, also believed that the immediate abolition of slavery in those states where there were very large numbers of slaves could create a situation that would be even worse in the short run than the institution of slavery itself. what i was trying to understand was: why is it that in the deep south, men like jefferson and others who favored abolition in principle didn't eagerly rush to create immediate abolition in practice? and that was their concern; they really did believe in the possibility of a race war that might lead to the extermination of one or the other of the two races. and that belief, which was widely shared among many americans, i think, was an important reason and, to some extent, a justification, for their failure to act as quickly as we today think they shoul
why'd you use that quote? >> guest: the point i'm making there is that americans in the pre-civil war period--many americans of good will, and tocqueville, a foreign observer, also of good will, people who believed in the principle of equality, also believed that the immediate abolition of slavery in those states where there were very large numbers of slaves could create a situation that would be even worse in the short run than the institution of slavery itself. what i was trying to...
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tweet us, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books on c-span2. >> the same course we have been on will not lead to a better destination. the same path we're on means $20 trillion of debt. means tripling unemployment stagnant take home pay. depressed home values, devastated military, and unless we change course we may be looking at another recession. so, the question of this election comes down to this. do you want more of the same or do you want real change? >> we know what change looks like, and what governor romney: is selling ain't it. giving more power the biggest banks isn't change. another $5 trillion tax cut for the wealthy is not change. refusing to answer questions about the details of your policies until after the election, definitely not change. >> changing the facts when they're inconvenient to your campaign, not change. >> tuesday night, watch live election coverage on c-span2 with president obama from chicago, and mitt romney in boston, plus key house and senate victory and concession speeches fr
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some of them to read the textbooks used in schools. unfortunately, they tend to write for each other rather than the rest of us, rather than certainly students in the classroom and that's what i see my role as a second exhibit is a teacher. getting people to explore the questions they might have and may be afraid to ask, pointing them in every direction so that i i think are accurate and useful information and hoping they move on from there. all of my boat from don't know much about history to my new one, "don't know much about the american presidents" contain less of must-read books, others they think are significant and long lists of books i used in terms of the reference and resource in research. >> host: you are watching and listening to booktv on c-span 2. this is our monthly "in depth" program. we invite one author to talk about his or her body of work and this month its kenneth davis, author and historian. here is a list of mr. davis' book's beginning in 1984 with the paper backing of america, they don't know much series started
some of them to read the textbooks used in schools. unfortunately, they tend to write for each other rather than the rest of us, rather than certainly students in the classroom and that's what i see my role as a second exhibit is a teacher. getting people to explore the questions they might have and may be afraid to ask, pointing them in every direction so that i i think are accurate and useful information and hoping they move on from there. all of my boat from don't know much about history to...
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people don't realize this, but did not used to be a bookstore on every corner, and did not use to the amazon when there was no intent. the public library was an absolute lifeline. we had the bookmobile, and i remember the bookmobile driving around our neighborhood. once or twice a week and good books. those experiences not only made me a reader. i believe they ultimately a writer. both public library is not a luxury in american life. it is a necessity. a necessity certainly in the new digital divide age when people are getting their computer access at a public library terminal as opposed to having a personal computer, and there are a great many people who do not have that access yet and depend on the public library. that is my sermon about the importance of the library and a functioning democracy. >> host: next call comes from allen in sanford, florida. hi. >> caller: can you hear me? >> host: we are listening. >> caller: very nice to talk to you. let me just say, i read a couple of your books, and i think it is great. i am totally blind. i noticed that you and your publisher have wor
people don't realize this, but did not used to be a bookstore on every corner, and did not use to the amazon when there was no intent. the public library was an absolute lifeline. we had the bookmobile, and i remember the bookmobile driving around our neighborhood. once or twice a week and good books. those experiences not only made me a reader. i believe they ultimately a writer. both public library is not a luxury in american life. it is a necessity. a necessity certainly in the new digital...